Prehistoric mammals - Show us yours- August 2015

Hello everybody.So, my suggestion for [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] win :) And it is my honor to start this new topic.I don`t have many of these models, but I`ll start with some of them for a beginningand I`ll be very happy to see the models from all of you :)

I am sorry for using old pictures. But here my Mojö Fun and Bullyland figures. The Smilodon is a production sample and has no markings at all, no brand name, year, etc.It was a gift from James Connolly, manager of the company.Hyaenodon and Daeodon were gifts from Susanne, she insisted I needed to have these tow and she was right as ever.It was also Susanne who enriched my collection with the Bullyland prheistoric mammals, except the gompotherium that was a gift from Christophe.

Great to see these models Roger. When you have a model, gift from the manager of the company..and it is even not marked..it makes this model much more special :)Thank you for sharing these models with us.

Great to see these models Roger. When you have a model, gift from the manager of the company..and it is even not marked..it makes this model much more special :)Thank you for sharing these models with us.

Thank you too, Kosta! Yes, it turns this smilodon more interesting as a collectible and as a bonus, it is a figure that I like very much.

I am delighted to be able to prsent the series "Prehistoric Life" from Safari Ltd.

Theyare all marked 2004 or 2005, but unfortunately ar now retired except the adult mammuth and the smilodon.As the range was narrowed, they became part of the Wild Safari Prehistoric World together with the inos etc.

Here you see them all, together with the Mammoth from the Carnegie Collection to compare size.[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

This last guy is a bit out of place He is not from the "Wild Safari Dinos" series, and he is not a real mammoth But he is one if my most cherished prehistoric models from Safari , and the [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] is from the family Gorgonopsidae, sometimes described as "Mammal-like reptiles" [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.][You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

It is so great to see your collection Susanne..and you start with realy nice Safari models :)And great collection from Andrea, I realy like the Schleich Macrauchenia, so nice model ..maybe the best one for this animal, from all brands :)

This inspires me to show my three beloved mini-ones together :[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

They are from left [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.], Safari Toob and a Made in Hong-Kong .The grey ones are especially special to me, because they were gifts Tim gave me the Lido one and Roger gave me th H-K one

Susanne, great presentation of your Safaris! It makes me think where to put mammal ancestors? Here or maybe in a future thread? They're so nice and that inostrancevia is a very good candidat for one more exception in my collection. Is there any collector with more different macrauchenias then you? Actually, I got this HK figure with Yvette's help, in an EBAY lot, just because of a rubbery fox. I am also impressed with Andrea's collection and I see that everyone shares with me a special admiration for Schleich macrauchenia. My favorite from that series. I have to show mine too!

...... It makes me think where to put mammal ancestors? Here or maybe in a future thread? They're so nice and that inostrancevia is a very good candidat for one more exception in my collection. ...

Great that you like that inostrancevia too

It could be fun and very interesting with such a topic !!! But perhaps difficult for people like me to contribute ...I already have a serious problem with the goats and "not-goats"

Becouse we talked about the mammal ancestors with Roger..are they fits good on this topic...and I think, that you are absolutely right Roger, that they are Prehistoric mammals too :) I asked Google, and he think`s the same

...... It makes me think where to put mammal ancestors? Here or maybe in a future thread? They're so nice and that inostrancevia is a very good candidat for one more exception in my collection. ...

Great that you like that inostrancevia too

It could be fun and very interesting with such a topic !!! But perhaps difficult for people like me to contribute ...I already have a serious problem with the goats and "not-goats"

Becouse we talked about the mammal ancestors with Roger..are they fits good on this topic...and I think, that you are absolutely right Roger, that they are Prehistoric mammals too :) I asked Google, and he think`s the same

I feel some interest in including these animals and I think our forum as also an educational spirit.We have two options. I can rename this topic and include these proto-mammals or open a new special topic at the middle of the month dedicated to them. Is not hard to determine if an animal belongs to these lineage. If we have doubts, we write the correct name of it at the English Wikipedia, and, in the part where it shows the taxonomic classification, usually under the main article picture, we only have to check if this animal belongs to a clade called synapsida. All mammals and proto-mammals are synapsids. Mammals belong to a class called mammalia, if the animal is a synapsid but doesn't belongs to mammalia class, it is a proto-mammal. I hope not to sound arrogant but who has doubts, one can make a little game, which of these 3 Bullyland releases doesn't represent a proto-mammal?- dimetrodon, arizonasaurus or edaphosaurus? You can also use this [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] that our real expert, Christophe, created on Toy Animal Wiki!

[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]Yujin Henkelotherium. A stem therian (closer to marsupials and placentals than to monotremes).

[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]Yowie Steropodon. A Cretaceous platypus.

[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]Yowie Kollikodon ("Hotcrossbunodon" is its nickname, a simultaneous pun and portmanteau because its teeth looked like hot cross buns, and are bunodont, meaning the crowns end in blunt tubercles rather than sharp crests). A Cretaceous monotreme which may or may not have looked like a giant platypus.

[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]Vivid Alphadon (Walking with Dinosaurs). A Cretaceous North American marsupial.

That's all I have, except for some other early mammal relatives like that wonderful Inostrancevia.

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Thank you both for the welcome! I'll go introduce myself on the relevant board...

@Susanne: great variety of Starlux pieces! Enough to inspire envy. Yes, Yowie made three series of "Lost Kingdoms" figures, I believe 110 in total. Now that I think of it, I have many more prehistoric mammals from that series, but I only actually collect Mesozoic things, so they quite slipped my mind. They are mostly Australian animals, so many are species that nobody else has made (like these monotremes!). Perhaps I will add some to the wiki!

I have hundreds of prehistoric mammals (especially if we include therapsids--but what of pelycosaurs and other synapsids? Will dicynodonts and dinocephalians also go in?), but it's going to take some time.

EDIT--I just looked, and including all synapsids I apparently have over 400 different ones--and I just received my CollectA order, for me and my store, which means a couple more!

And it could take forever to get them all here...even just the ones that aren't already.

OH, I am impressed, this topic is getting very interesting. Halich, Susanne and Sean... so great collections! I think prehistoric mammals are doing well so we can open a different topic to other synapsids. Any candidat to open it at 15 th or shall I do it myself?

OH, I am impressed, this topic is getting very interesting. Halich, Susanne and Sean... so great collections! I think prehistoric mammals are doing well so we can open a different topic to other synapsids. Any candidat to open it at 15 th or shall I do it myself?

You'll probably find that the 'synapsids' one has fewer figures, but it will be full of unusual animals--and hopefully someone has some rarely-seen gems (like, say, a FaunaCasts Moschops...who could that be!? )

This has been a fascinating topic! A big thank you to all the posters! I don't have any prehistoric mammals besides a couple hominids I got for my mother.I'd kind of like seeing all the protomammals here as well...

OH, I am impressed, this topic is getting very interesting. Halich, Susanne and Sean... so great collections! I think prehistoric mammals are doing well so we can open a different topic to other synapsids. Any candidat to open it at 15 th or shall I do it myself?

You'll probably find that the 'synapsids' one has fewer figures, but it will be full of unusual animals--and hopefully someone has some rarely-seen gems (like, say, a FaunaCasts Moschops...who could that be!? )

Sean, I think you're a good candidat! You have several and as you are knowledgeable about these animals, maybe you can make a great introduction. You don't have to post them all at once and you can even copy the code from your posts in any other forum using bbcode. I am not a collector of prehistoric animal figures and I have only 2 or 3 of these. I think that I don't even have a dimetrodon. It will be surely a small topic but surely very interesting with unusual species.

Sean, I think you're a good candidat! You have several and as you are knowledgeable about these animals, maybe you can make a great introduction. You don't have to post them all at once and you can even copy the code from your posts in any other forum using bbcode. I am not a collector of prehistoric animal figures and I have only 2 or 3 of these. I think that I don't even have a dimetrodon. It will be surely a small topic but surely very interesting with unusual species.

That would be WONDERFUL !!!!Please, please, Sean say yes !!!

I do not know the first thing about these fascinating ancestors of ours, so at least for me it would be enormously interesting to have them in a separate topic If it weas not for you, I might fear that it would be a very small topic, but with you and Halichoeres ( and our other experts) contributing it could be very educative [/quote]

Kosta, your collection has so many rare and beautyful gems of brands that we rarely see

That is a lovely JA-RU model of Uintatherium, and ...MEG also made prehistoric models !!!! They are beautyful !That smilodon !!! I have one also, and I love it A very, very kind young man in Bulgaria gave it to me, - can anybody guess who ?

Here are a few more Yowies, at least the ones I haven't sold yet. Lost Kingdoms Series A had many mammals. Series B had only one mammal, and Series C again had more than a dozen mammals, all Australian.

What an amazing flock you have there, Halichoeres ! And all Australian species of mammals I had no idea that there has been found fossiles of so many town there !!!This is indeed a very interesting topic

I’m finally going to get at least some of my prehistoric mammals up. I will be honest though, I will not be labelling more than company/series because, again, almost 400 models and counting. Plus, many are dispersed in storage or shelves so it’s easier to just use my stock photos rather than group shots—apologies in advance, because it’s going to be a lot of photos!